Chapter 5 of Wild Justice is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Wild Justice is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in. He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room. "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber. The accused stood up. In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Chapter 5 of Wild Justice is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/25 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading “In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.”
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading “The accused stood up.”
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Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The accused stood up.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading The accused stood up.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The door to the hallway opened suddenly and Henry strode in.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He looked at Diana Trenchant and gestured toward the hearing room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The accused stood up.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading In silence, the seven witnesses grouped around hugging her and each other.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber.
Chapter 5 of Wild Justice by Ruth M. Sprague holds 128 sentences, grouped into 26 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 5 holds 128 sentences of Wild Justice, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Wild Justice by Ruth M. Sprague exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 128 sentences, grouped into 26 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 26 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 26 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Wild Justice, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
